Van Gogh Watercolors

Van Gogh is the brand for the serious artist who has an eye for quality.

Van Gogh watercolors are brilliant, intense, and very transparent. Every color in the line features the highest degree of lightfastness, ensuring that your work displays the same color decades later as it did on the day you painted it. Due to the purity of the colors, Van Gogh Watercolors are extremely easy to mix and wash to create the subtlest of differences in shade.

Van Gogh Watercolors are made in the Netherlands. Each tube contains 10 ml (.34 oz).

Note — Use this color chart as an approximation of the real color. If exact color matching is necessary, use actual samples of the materials.

Van Gogh student watercolor paints are an excellent choice for the beginning watercolorist. The colors are true, mix easily and provide respectable transparency. Due to the sometimes prohibitive price of watercolor paints, it's great to know that Van Gogh offers quality choices at affordable prices for us 'starving students'!

This is the brand I use for all my beginner's watercolor classes. With the exception of not having any cadmium colors (so that prices remain low)the selection is excellent and the quality really fine for student grade paints. Far better, in my opinion, than Grumbacher. Colors in W&N are very fine and there are cadmium "hues" but tubes are a little smaller. These paints are definitely worth their cost and are very dependable.

Because of the price point of these watercolors, this paint may fool you. There are 15 one pigment colors in VG, other colors are two pigments. Mixing and coverage is very good with VG. More colors would be nice. I have other watercolor paint that is more expensive but VG in some colors are as good as the more expensive. I could not give VG Best in category because I have not used all the other paints. Having said that VG is a VARY nice paint. Thanks and Happy Painting.

This is the first time I have tried these paints. I love them. Left them out on my palette for several days, and each time I came back to them, they melted like butter. Smooth, rich colors. They mix well. Not crumbly or gritty at all. I will be purchasing more of these!

I've been an artist for over 20 years and would highly recommend these paints . They reconstitute well when rewet, contain intense pigments that spread beautifully and no issues with fading over time. Excellent for field studies, I keep a travel set in my glove box. As a student grade paint you can't go wrong. I particularly love their sap green and burnt sienna even over many professional grades. Their affordability allows for a nice range of colors for the beginner with out breaking the bank.

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